Robert Nesta Marley

Now I want to tell you about the ‘legend of reggae music’ Robert Nesta Marley, better known as Bob Marley. Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. In 1963, Marley started his musical experimentation in ska and gravitated towards reggae as the music evolved, playing, teaching and singing for a long period in the 1970's and 1980's. Marley is perhaps best-known for work with his reggae group 'The Wailers', which included two other celebrated reggae musicians, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. The Wailers' 1974 album Burnin contained "I Shot The Sheriff" and "Get Up, Stand Up," both of which gathered cult followings in both the US and Europe. The same year, the Wailers broke up to pursue solo careers. At this point, Marley had made a full transition from ska and rocksteady to a new style, which would forever be called reggae. He is even recognized as the most successful reggae musician of all time. Bob Marley past away on May 11, 1981 because of his cancer.